Re: The Education Function

> -----Original Message-----> From: Terry Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com>> To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>> >---Samael <Samael@dial.pipex.com> wrote:> >>> >> -----Original Message-----> >> From: Darin Sunley <umsunley@cc.umanitoba.ca>> >> To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>> >> Date: 11 December 1998 13:15> >> Subject: Re: Re: The Education Function> >>> >>> >> >The only hole in this, of course, is the lack of ability in most> >countries> >> for a citizen to "opt out" of government services. My brother feels> >that> >> allowing opting out would be a bad idea. I think I agree, at least for> >> certain category B services that are both very important and whose> >utility> >> decreases as the amount of buy-in decreases.> >>> >>> >> For instance, the army. It's a tad hard to protect no 7 smith> >street from> >> nuclear weapons without protecting no 9 as well (even iof no 7 wants> >to pay> >> for it and no 9 doesn't).> >>> >If there are no governments then who is going to bomb who? The reason> >we have wars in the first place is because one government has a beef> >with another government. If there is no central authority to attack,> >how does one wage war? If there's no government to surrender how does> >the aggresor declare victory?